Chester Change Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Banstead Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bletchley Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	22
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	12	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	8.511 %	6.796 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£324	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£348	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£386
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£22.06	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+22.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.11	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	141	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.113 %
Daily rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£286
Average daily rate	£306	£300
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.09	£31.21
Average hourly rate	£26.26	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-15.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.42	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.25	£29.44
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Change Management Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Chester region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Change Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Change Management.

1 20 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 8 (26.67 %) Remedy 3 7 (23.33 %) Service Management 4 6 (20.00 %) QA 4 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (20.00 %) SAP 4 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 5 (16.67 %) Project Management 6 4 (13.33 %) SAP BW 6 4 (13.33 %) SAP APO 6 4 (13.33 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft 7 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 7 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint 7 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE

7 3 (10.00 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (10.00 %) Management Information System 7 3 (10.00 %) Release Management 8 2 (6.667 %) SAP SM 8 2 (6.667 %) Problem Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Matrix Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Information Management 8 2 (6.667 %) SLA 8 2 (6.667 %) UNIX 8 2 (6.667 %) C 8 2 (6.667 %) SQL 9 1 (3.333 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (3.333 %) .NET 9 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 9 1 (3.333 %) MS Project

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Change Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.333 %) .NET 1 1 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (3.333 %) SOAP 1 1 (3.333 %) WebServices 1 1 (3.333 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.00 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.333 %) MS Visio 1 1 (3.333 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (13.33 %) SAP APO 2 2 (6.667 %) SAP SM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.333 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (13.33 %) SAP BW 2 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (3.333 %) Finance 1 1 (3.333 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (3.333 %) Banking 1 1 (3.333 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 20 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 10 (33.33 %) Change Analyst 3 5 (16.67 %) Release Analyst 4 4 (13.33 %) Project Manager 5 3 (10.00 %) Service Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) Project Support Officer 5 3 (10.00 %) Project Officer 6 2 (6.667 %) Services Delivery Analyst 6 2 (6.667 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Configuration Manager 7 1 (3.333 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.333 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.333 %) Server Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Capacity Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Change Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.00 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.333 %) N-Tier 2 1 (3.333 %) PMI 2 1 (3.333 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.667 %) UNIX 2 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2 1 (3.333 %) AIX 2 1 (3.333 %) HPUX 2 1 (3.333 %) Linux 2 1 (3.333 %) VMS 2 1 (3.333 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 7 (23.33 %) Service Management 3 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (16.67 %) Project Management 5 3 (10.00 %) Release Management 5 3 (10.00 %) PRINCE 5 3 (10.00 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (6.667 %) Information Management 6 2 (6.667 %) Problem Management 6 2 (6.667 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (3.333 %) Incident Management 7 1 (3.333 %) Project Planning 7 1 (3.333 %) Extreme Programming 7 1 (3.333 %) Data Management 7 1 (3.333 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (3.333 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.667 %) C 1 2 (6.667 %) SQL 2 1 (3.333 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (3.333 %) C# 2 1 (3.333 %) C++ 2 1 (3.333 %) COBOL 2 1 (3.333 %) Java 2 1 (3.333 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 6 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (13.33 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (20.00 %) QA 2 2 (6.667 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 8 (26.67 %) Remedy 2 6 (20.00 %) SAP 3 3 (10.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 4 1 (3.333 %) BMC 4 1 (3.333 %) HP 4 1 (3.333 %) Hummingbird